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Pump Project, HOPE, Co-Lab DEMO forced to move in 2018

"...the other victims with me: Salvage Vanguard Theater, the Rude Mechs' Off Center, Tapestry Dance Company's Western Trails home,..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...the Eastside space managed for 17 years by the Rude Mechs, who made it available to numerous other groups...."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2016

Works that struck a nerve with the political state of our city and our nation stood out in this year's outstanding theatre productions

"...7) REQUIEM FOR TESLA (Rude Mechs) The Rudes' 2001 toast to the brilliant, badly..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Statesman Cuts Arts Staff

Arts critic Jeanne Claire van Ryzin terminated after 17 years

"...arts world beyond it. As Lana Lesley of the Rude Mechs theatre collective eloquently phrased it in a Facebook..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Seeing Life’s Brevity in the Art Poles of South First

Street art goes vertical in South Austin

"...magic with it. (See Slacker, El Mariachi, Greater Tuna, Rude Mechs, et al.) In the tradition of Austin creativity,..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Creative Things I Lucked Into in 2014

In 2014, reality and fantasy battled it out in theatre and art that was equally exquisite and unnerving

"...7) THE METHOD GUN (Rude Mechs) The Rudes reprised their – well, you can't..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...Kirk Lynn, Sarah Richardson, and Shawn Sides with the Rude Mechs. David Yeakle with Tongue and Groove Theatre. Ron..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...took home the most awards. (That would be the Rude Mechs' Fixing King John, which earned six honors.) The..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Method Gun

The Rude Mechs' play both affirms and dismantles everything your own guru taught you

"...Which is what the Rude Mechs did during the long development process for The..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Taste the Hybrids

Fusebox Festival 2013 serves up more toothsome mash-ups of art, food, tech, and space

"...(2009, 2010, 2012), who's deep in collaboration with Austin's Rude Mechs, Rubber Rep, Physical Plant, and Salvage Vanguard Theater...."

April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival 2012

This year the fest's dance works provoked questions about inequity, grrrl power, fame, and change

"...Madsen) was obstinate and inebriated. Hanson, who choreographed the Rude Mechs' I've Never Been So Happy, seen in last..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

All Over Creation: Come Together

You're not alone in the theatre, and there's power in that

"...Lapis Light's Requiem, Forklift Danceworks' The Trash Project, the Rude Mechs' Decameron Day 7: Revenge!, Rubber Repertory's Biography of..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'Steinway to Hell'

Just the two leaders of the Golden Hornet Project and a pair of pianos

"...Never Been So Happy, Stopschinski's musical collaboration with the Rude Mechs and one of seven plays chosen for the..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Method Gun, Rude Mechs..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Entranced

Remembering one who fascinated us all: Karen Kuykendall, 1937-2007

"...Rude Mechs co-artistic director, actress, director..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Red Cans'

The performers in 'Red Cans' have to stuff themselves into tiny laundry hampers where they can't see, must use their arms to walk, and get horribly cramped and bruised, but you won't hear them complain

"...theatre companies. Last November they began talking with the Rude Mechs (co-producers of Red Cans) about the idea for..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Stella Adler and the American Theater

UT's Harry Ransom Center, which acquired the complete archive of Stella Adler, celebrates her impact on American acting in the symposium Stella Adler and the American Theater

"...company. Local stage companies such as Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechs, and Bedlam Faction are founded on the same..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Single Wet Female

In the spoof Single Wet Female,' Marga Gomez and Carmelita Tropicana mounted a delectable feast of perversions, inversions, and subversions for the ravenously underrepresented

"...Gomez's Single Wet Female, the second installment of the Rude Mechs' Throws Like a Girl series...."

March 4, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...Hall of Famer Gina Lalli, musician Natalie Zoe, and Rude Mechs co-Artistic Director Shawn Sides, and administrators such as..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City of Brotherly Rudes

The Rude Mechs hit Philly with 'How Late It Was, How Late,' while company member Lana Lesley goes touring with SITI Company

"...This week, the Rude Mechs hit Philly in a big way, presenting their..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The Rude Mechs take Lipstick Traces to Europe, Austin Civic Wind Ensemble finds a new conductor, Mexic-Arte makes art for the bus station, and the city is looking for artists to mark up South Congress.

"...For the Rude Mechs, "today Austin, tomorrow the world" has ceased to..."

July 11, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

A scorecard of changes in the January arts calendar owing to, um, difficulties in the economy, as well as scheduling conflicts and new bookings.

"...It Was, How Late was set to follow the Rude Mechs' triumphant West Coast tour of Lipstick Traces, but..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Heart Attack & Fine

Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas

"...the Vortex, Hyde Park Theatre, the Blue Theater, the Rude Mechs -- all of these places that nurture new..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

The Blanton Museum of Art gets a cool million for its new building, Austin Museum of Art gets a new director of development to raise money for its new building, and a whole lotta Austin Artists get nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards.

"...of the leading nominees. Top honors go to the Rude Mechs' productions of El Paraiso (13 nominations) and Big..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

El Paraiso

The Rude Mechs took a road trip to see the Marfa lights, and their journey has been translated by playwright Kirk Lynn, director Shawn Sides, and a gifted ensemble into a raucous, sweet, funny, fanciful meditation on the tension between desire and intellect, and heaven as embodied in the land called Texas.

"...that's how it is in the cosmos of the Rude Mechs. This well-traveled, restlessly inventive company took a road..."

May 17, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Road Movies

"...a road trip to Marfa, Texas, during which the Rude Mechs sat around in bars with rodeo cowboys and..."

March 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Articulations

The scoop on the 2000-01 Austin Critics Table awards ceremony

"...each: Zach's Art and Circumference of a Squirrel; the Rude Mechs' Requiem for Tesla, which received a special citation..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Decameron Day 7: REVENGE, Rude Mechs..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Requiem for Tesla

Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.

"...Requiem for Tesla: Rude Mechanicals..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...companies -- e.g., Salvage Vanguard Theater, root wy'mn theatre, Rude Mechanicals -- frequently book the space to premiere new..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

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